Holt County
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county in Nebraska, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Nebraska
- Founded
- January 9, 1862 (created), December 27, 1876 (organized)
- Named after
- Joseph Holt
- Seat
- O'Neill
- Largest city
- O'Neill
- Total
- 2,417.496 sq mi (6,261.29 km )
- Land
- 2,411.851 sq mi (6,246.67 km )
- Water
- 5.645 sq mi (14.62 km ) 0.23%
- Estimate 2025
- 10,067
- Density
- 4.1988/sq mi (1.6212/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Area code
- 402 and 531
- Congressional district
- 3rd
- Website
- holtcounty.nebraska.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Holt County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,127, and was estimated to be 10,067 in 2025. The county seat and the largest city is O'Neill.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Holt County was represented by the prefix "36" (as it had the 36th-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Holt County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.